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When the money comes to me, I must be able to pay all my debts, and have enough left to recommence life with. Don't you approve this resolution, Miss Shepperson? 'Oh yes, indeed I do, replied the listener heartily. 'And yet, of course, he pursued, his eyes wandering, 'we must have a servant Miss Shepperson reflected, she too with an uneasy look on her face.
While signing this, he gravely expressed his conviction that before Michaelmas the time for payment would have arrived. 'But if it were next week, he added, with a polite movement towards his creditor, 'I should be not a bit the less grateful to our most kind friend. 'Oh, but it's purely a matter of business, said Miss Shepperson, who was always abashed by such expressions.
This proposal, I cannot help feeling, is as much for your benefit as for ours. Doesn't it really seem so to you? Suppose you come up with me and look at the room. It is not in perfect order, but you will see whether it pleases you. Curiosity allying itself with the allurement which had begun to work upon her feelings, Miss Shepperson timidly rose and followed her smiling guide upstairs.
Rymer was ill very ill indeed the new handmaid exhibited a character so eccentric that, after nearly setting fire to the house while in a state of intoxication, she had to be got rid of as speedily as possible. Miss Shepperson resolved that, for the present, there should be no repetition of such disagreeable things. She quietly told Mr.
Her reward was the admiration and gratitude of the family; even little Minnie had been taught to say, at frequent intervals: 'I love Miss Shepperson because she is good! The invalid behaved to her as to a sister, and kissed her cheek morning and evening.
Late that evening he and Miss Shepperson were in the kitchen together: the one was washing crockery, the other, who had been filling coal-scuttles, stood with dirty hands and melancholy visage, his eyes fixed on the floor. Their looks met; Mr. Rymer took a step forward, smiling with confidential sadness. 'I feel that I ought to speak frankly, he said, in a voice as polite and well-tuned as ever.
Miss Shepperson would thus have a home a real home with all family comforts, and Mrs. Rymer, who was too much occupied with house and children to see much society, would have the advantage of a sympathetic friend under her own roof. The good lady's voice trembled with joyous eagerness as she unfolded the project, and her eyes grew large as she waited for the response.
Miss Wilcox was very proud of the epigram, "empty heads and pretty faces." She used it frequently, more in sorrow than in anger. Vera was an excellent example. She was incapable of "conducting a conversation," she never read a book, but simply because her eyes sparkled and somehow or other, she always reminded you of a Shepperson drawing, she was invariably surrounded by a host of adorers.
We will send you our address, and you shall hear of your little godchild Her voice broke; she sobbed, and rebuked herself for weakness, and sobbed again. Meanwhile Mr. Rymer stood holding out banknotes and gold. The distracted Miss Shepperson made a wild gesture. 'How can I take it? How can I? I should be ashamed the longest day I lived! 'I must insist, said Mr.
'Oh yes, indeed you will; I can't dream of your going out into this weather till after lunch. Suppose we have the tots into the drawing-room again? I want them to make friends with you at once. I know you love children. Oh, I have known that for a long time! Miss Shepperson stayed to lunch. She stayed to tea.
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